GROWTH OF THE WEB by AUBREY HERBERT (Murray N. Rothbard)  The Freeman, April 1955 “Growth of the Webb”, a book review of “Fabianism in the Political Life of Britain” by Sister M. Margaret Patricia McCarran. 612 pp. Chicago. A well-known British historian, attempting to apologize for the enormous growth of the British Empire during the nineteenth century, declared that Britain had acquired her empire in a “fit of absence of mind.” True or not, this was not the cause of the British adoption of socialism. There was nothing haphazard about that. It was all planned that way, planned carefully and … Continue reading Growth of the Web